articulus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin articulus. Doublet of article.

Noun

articulus (plural articuli)

(zoology) A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea.
(zoology) A joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.

Translations

a joint of the cirri of a crinoid

Portuguese: artículo (pt) m

a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage

Portuguese: artículo (pt)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “articulus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Alternative forms

articlus (late, proscribed)

Etymology

Diminutive from artus (“joint; limbs”) +‎ -culus. In the grammatical sense, it is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /arˈti.ku.lus/, [ärˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈti.ku.lus/, [ärˈt̪iːkulus]

Noun

articulus m (genitive articulī); second declension

a point connecting various parts of the body; joint, knot, knuckle.
a limb, member, finger
(grammar) a short clause; a single word; pronoun, pronominal adjective or article
(figuratively) a member, part, division, point, article
(figuratively) a point in time, moment; division of time, space
(mathematics) a positive decimal integer consisting of a non-zero digit multiplied by a positive integral power of ten.
- 1544, w:Orontius Finaeus, Arithmetica Practica, liber I, cap. 1 [1]
  Articulus vero dicitur numerus, qui ex decem unitatibus, vel binariis, aut ternariis, aliisve decuplatis consurgit numeris: cuiusmodi sunt decem, viginti, triginta, quadraginta, quinquaginta, centum, mille, et similes numeri in naturali serie articulatim distributi.
  A number is called an article, on the other hand, when it is arisen from a single ten, or a double ten, or a triple ten, or other ten-fold numbers: of which are ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, one hundred, one thousand, and similar numbers distributed point by point in natural series.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	articulus	articulī
genitive	articulī	articulōrum
dative	articulō	articulīs
accusative	articulum	articulōs
ablative	articulō	articulīs
vocative	articule	articulī

Derived terms

(grammar) articulus dēfīnītus, articulus indēfīnītus; articulus praepositīvus, articulus postpositīvus
articulāris
articulō
articulōsus

Related terms

Descendants

Inherited

Old French: arteil
- French: arteil, orteil (“toe”)
- →? Italian: artiglio (“claw, talon”)
Catalan: artell (“knuckle, joint of a toe or a finger”)
Galician: artello, ortello (“ankle, knuckle, joint, hock”)
Occitan: artelh (“toe”)
Portuguese: artelho (“toe”)
Sicilian: artigghiu
Spanish: artejo (“knuckle”)

Borrowed

→ Aragonese: articlo (learned)
→ Catalan: article (learned)
→ Esperanto: artiko
→ Old French: article (learned)
- French: article
  - → Romanian: articol (partly)
  - → Russian: артикль (artiklʹ)
- → Middle English: article
  - English: article
→ Friulian: articul (learned)
Galician: → artigo (semi-learned), → artículo (learned)
→ German: Artikel m (learned)
- → Kashubian: artikel
- → Russian: арти́кул (artíkul)
  - → Bulgarian: арти́кул (artíkul)
→ Old Irish: articol
- Irish: airteagal, airceadal
- Scottish Gaelic: airteagal
→ Italian: articolo (semi-learned)
→ Ladin: articul (learned)
→ Luxembourgish: Artikel (learned)
→ Occitan: artícol, article (learned)
→ Polish: artykuł (learned)
- Russian: арты́кул (artýkul) (obsolete)
Portuguese: → artigo (semi-learned), → artículo (learned)
→ Romanian: articol (learned)
→ Sicilian: artìculu (learned)
→ Spanish: artículo (learned)
→ Proto-Brythonic: *ėrθɨgl
- Middle Welsh: erthigyl
  - Welsh: erthygl

References

“articulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“articulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
articulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
articulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) just at the critical moment: in ipso discrimine (articulo) temporis